What is a Citizen Developer and Shadow IT?

A “Citizen Developer” is a user who creates business applications for a department or company and who is not part of the IT department.

“Shadow IT” typically refers to users or departments who have implemented software or other technical solutions outside of IT’s approval or knowledge.

Citizen Developers and Shadow IT can be a real headache for an already overworked and underfunded IT department. Users don’t have to know much technically, if anything, to assemble useful business applications using No-code/Low-code platforms.

Microsoft Integration

Use Cases and Application Gallery

In-house built applications specific to each organization is the cornerstone of what gives them a competitive edge for selling better, building better products and services, improving customer service, and saving time and money.

Any mid-sized organization can require literally hundreds of applications to automate the sheer number of processes they have in different areas of the business. Here are a number of applications to give you some ideas around what applications could work for you.

Partner Program

DOCOVA’s Partner Program offers your company a competitive advantage that can open the door to new business opportunities and revenue streams. Our Partner Program provides access to DOCOVA, lead generation, product and marketing training, discounts, a technical support portal and access to beta versions.

Are You Attending IBM Connect 2017?

Are You Attending IBM Connect 2017?

The IBM Connect Conference, which used to be Lotusphere until it was re-branded several years back, is to be held in San Francisco February 20-23 2017. As you are probably aware, for more than two decades this event was held at the Disney complex in Orlando. This is the first time the event is to be held on the West Coast of the USA. It has also been pushed back a month on the calendar.

I personally have been to 18 of these events, starting out back in the day when you continuously cycled your browser refresh button, around the time the registration page live time hit, hoping to get a spot before the conference was full. That usually happened in less than an hour.

A lot has changed in the Notes and Domino community over the past two decades. For the past four years we have passed on taking a booth on the Showcase floor, instead holding a DOCOVA event on the boardwalk or some other venue close to the action.

This year we wanted to try and get a gauge from customers and business partners on their thoughts regarding the conference, find out if they were planning to attend, or not, and why.

Here is the link tothe conference web site. If you have not been there take a minute and have a look. There are a lot of different options compared to previous years that help you to control your costs from a registration point of view. Sessions have yet to be posted, but should be up soon.

Have a look if you have not already, then leave a comment on this page to let us know what your feelings are.